When I started collecting titles for World Refugee Day, I thought I might be hard pressed to assemble a respectable representation. But the abundance of books that came readily to hand testifies to the importance and relevance of this topic.
Circumstances that prompt people to leave behind home, property, and extended family are never felicitous, and the situations into which they arrive are often fraught. The books below sketch some of these departures and the variety of modes by which refugees make their way to a new life, sometimes over a span of years, sometimes in a matter of days or even hours.
